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June 2007 Hdip and ODCSSS Feeds

The School of Computer Science in UCD has been running a very successful and popular H. Dip. in Computer Science for a number of year. As the new course director I have started to revamp this course and improve its industrial relevance starting in 2007. Ongoing developments will solidify our role as the leading conversion course for non-computing majors into computer science in Ireland. I maintain an RSS feed which you can subscribe to in a number of ways: Higher Diploma Computer Science News Feed

The H. Dip. in Computer Science UCD is a conversion course which gives graduates from non-computing disciplines a sound theoretical foundation and practical exposure to Computer Science. In addition, the course may qualify participants to study for an M.Sc. in Computer Science. The course is made up of 10 modules of Computer Science, where a module typically consists of 24 lectures and additional practical sessions.

ODCSSS Poster

June 5th saw 12 students join us in Computer Science and Informatics in UCD for the UREKA (SFI) funded ODCSSS research summer school. In total there are 24 International research undergraduate projects in Ireland for “Technologies for Aiding Human Memory”. ODCSSS 2007 News

ODCSSS the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School is a paid research internship program for undergraduate students funded in part by the Science Foundation Ireland under their UREKA program. ODCSSS is a four-year collaborative internship program between the School of Computer Science and Informatics at the University College Dublin and the School of Computing at the Dublin City University.

This year we had over 100 applications from around the world. In 2007 we have students coming from Universities in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand and the USA. The primary goal of this research program is to afford exceptional undergraduate students the opportunity to participate and contribute to exciting yet challenging research projects and to inspire them to go on to undertake research careers.

May 2007 UbiComp 2007 PC

UbiComp 2007 PC

In May of 2007 I attend a two day meeting as a program committee member in Toronto for the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. This will be held on 16-19 September 2007 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was a great event with many of the leading figures in UbiComp in attendance. In addition I’m glad to say it was a very educational experience as I got to interact with some great people in fruitful discussion. I got to see first hand, yet again, how much time and effort goes into putting together a top class conference program. It reminded me very much of the dedication shown during the Pervasive 2006 PC meeting in Boston in Dec 2005.

May 2007 New Papers and Professional Activities

  • Dobson S., Bailey E., Knox S., Shannon R. and Quigley A., “A First Approach to the Closed-Form Specification and Analysis of an Autonomic Control System”, 12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007), Auckland, New Zealand, 11-14 July 2007
  • West D., Quigley A. and Kay J., “MEMENTO: A Digital Physical Scrapbook for Memory Sharing”, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue on Memory and sharing of experiences, Pages 313-328, Volume 11, Number 4 / April, 2007

Apr 2007 Graduate Research Education: Sweden

SICS

On April 18th I took part in an IRCSET funded GREP research visit with my colleague Gavin Doherty from Trinity College Dublin. IRCSET funded an exploratory grant which supported this trip for the development of a Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision.

We attended an Open Day of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and the Interactive Institute in Stockholm Sweden hosted by Dr. Jim Dowling. The aim of this visit was document best practice in graduate research education and to understand how stronger links with industry and research labs can be developed. While this was only a one day event we managed to speak with over 20 academics and graduate students from around Sweden representing 6 different Universities.

The following day a group of HCI academics in Uppsala very graciously gave us many hours of their time for an in depth discussion of graduate education in Sweden. Their combined experience has brought about their inter-disciplinary Master in HCI. From their description of the years of effort in creating this program and the strong industry links it’s clear this will be the gold standard in graduate HCI education.

Our meeting in Uppsala was a very productive and informative half-day event. We are very thankful to Professor Mats Lind, Professor Jan Gulliksen, Professor Bengt Sandblad and all their team for their time and efforts with us. Graduate Education both taught and at the post doctoral level is markedly different between Sweden and Ireland. We aim to learn from these differences. We hope our proposed GREP can establish strong links with this world class HCI program.

Masters in HCI Uppsala

Apr 2007 A digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing

MEMENTO: a digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing
Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher Springer London
ISSN 1617-4909 (Print) 1617-4917 (Online)
Subject Computer Science
Issue Volume 11, Number 4 / April, 2007
Category Original Article
DOI 10.1007/s00779-006-0090-7
Pages 313-328

David West, Aaron Quigley and Judy Kay

Research from Project Nightingale Australia.

Mar 2007 IBM CAS Conference CFP

IBM Dublin CAS Banner

The Preliminary Call for Papers for the IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007 has now been published. This is the third annual IBM Dublin CAS research symposia organised as a multi-track single day event on October 24th 2007. This symposium is organised in association with CASCON 2007 -The 17th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering – URL (http://witanweb.ca/cascon2007/) and in cooperation with Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Center URL (http://www.lero.ie). A number of staff from the School of Computer Science & Informatics and Lero@UCD, LERO@UL, LERO@TCD and LERO@DCU are involved with the organisation and program committee for this Symposium.

Mar 2007 UbiComp Reviews Start

I am a PC member for UbiComp 2007 and reviewing has now started for the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. [ Watch the UbiComp 2007 Promo Video here ].

This conference is to be held in Innsbruck, Austria in September 2007 with the General Conference Chair Thomas Strang and the Program Committee Co-Chairs John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA; Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech, USA and Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia.